Tied to Our Fate

The sun shined brightly through my window when I woke up the next morning. Groaning, I rolled over onto my back and yawned trying to wake up. I lay there for a few minutes until there was a soft knock at my door.
“Come in1” I said, in my raspy morning voice.
The door opened to reveal Brian.
“Morning.” He smiled.
“Oh, hey. Morning.” I answered.
I sat up, trying to comb out the rat’s nest that was my hair on my head.
He stood at the end of the bed. He must have gone home already because he had different clothes on than last night.
“Bout time you wake up.” He laughed as he crossed his arms over his chest.
“How long have you been up?”
“Went home about 10:30 and took a shower and came back and you were still asleep, at noon.”
I looked over to the clock on my bed side table that read 1:12.
“Jeez, I can’t believe I slept that long.” I huffed, rubbing my eyes.
“Well hurry your butt up and get ready. I’m hungry.” He smirked, walking over to the door.
“Ok, sorry I slept so long. You should have woke me up.”
“It’s no big deal. I did come in here earlier to see if you were awake, but you looked so peaceful laying there snoring your head off.”
“I do not snore!” I gasped.
“Yes, you do!”
“Oh, whatever. Get out of here so I can get ready.”
“I’ll be downstairs.” he smiled, opening the door and closing the door behind him.
I stretched as I stood up heading for my bathroom. I stripped out of my clothes and through them in the hamper. The warm water felt good on my skin. I just stood there for a few minutes still trying to wake up before washing my hair and body quickly and then stepping out. I quickly dressed and put some mousse in my hair scrunching it a little and putting on some mascara. Then I was done, so I slipped my feet into my sandals and headed downstairs.
Zack and Brian were cutting up about something in the kitchen when I entered.
“Afternoon, sleepy head.” Zack chuckled.
“Hey.” I smiled, grabbing some water from the fridge.
“Well, me and Stacy are gonna go grab some lunch, man.” Brian announced standing up from his seat at the table.
Zack cocked an eyebrow.
“Oh, not gonna invite me? I see how it is.” He joked.
Brian had a pained look on his face like he really, really didn’t want Zack to tag along with us.
“Relax, I’m joking!” Zack snorted.
Brian’s shoulders relaxed and a small smile broke on his face.
“Ok, well we’ll see you later, Zack.” I added.
“Later!” he waved.

“So where do you want to go?” Brian asked me as we sped down the highway in his car.
“Doesn’t matter to me. Whatever you want is fine. As long as it isn’t sushi, I don’t care.” I answered.
He chuckled lightly as he looked over at me.
“Mexican?”
“Fine with me.”
“You’re not hard to please at all are you?” he wondered.
“No, not at all.” I teased, looking over my sunglasses at him.
A smile on his face, he shook his head. Brian had always been a pretty happy guy but ever since he and the rest of the guys got back home from touring, he seemed to be a little happier. He was definitely smiling a little more.
“Why are you so happy all of a sudden?”
“Was I not happy before?”
“No, you just seem a little different is all.”
He shrugged as we pulled into the restaurant parking lot.
At the table, we sat kind of quietly looking over the menus but I really wasn’t concerned with my stomach at the moment. I wanted to know what Brian was up to. But I could barely look him in the eyes he made me so nervous. I watched his big brown eyes scan over the menu then look up.
“What?” he grinned.
Shaking my head, I looked back down at the menu until I got up the courage to ask him.
“What are you doing?”
“Uh, looking at the menu?”
“No, I mean what are you doing here? What are we doing?”
“Oh, well I thought we were eating.” He chuckled.
“I mean, why did you ask me here today?”
He sat down his menu on the table and leaned in a little closer.
“Because I guess I haven’t always been clear about how I feel.”
“Feel about what exactly?”
“You.’
“Me?” I questioned, pointing my finger at myself.
“Yes, you.” He smiled.
“What do you mean?”
“Stace, I like you. I always have. I’ve always been a little scared to tell you. And when you were with those other guys I just thought I never had a chance.”
I had no idea what to say. I’ve known him my whole life and just now he tells me that he likes me? Why couldn’t he have told me that before I got with a psycho last year? See, I met this guys and long story short, he was a psychopath. He got possessive and abusive. After I broke it off he starting stalking me at my apartment, which was the reason I now stayed at Zack’s. Finally, my brother and the rest of the guys went after him and beat the hell out of him and scared his punk ass off and I hadn’t heard from him since.
“Stacy? Say something.” Brian chuckled, nervously.
“I don’t know what to say.” I smiled lightly.
I knew what I wanted to say. Just take me and do me now and make me yours dammit because I’ve had always had a huge crush on you!
But I couldn’t do that…
“Well, am I alone in my feelings here or…?”
“No, no,” I began, smiling leaning closer to him over the table.
“I just never have any idea that you…felt that way.”
I looked away nervously.
“Well I do.”
“What made you decide to finally tell me this?”
“It just kind of hit me one day that I should grow some balls and tell you. I want to be the one making you happy, not some other guy.”
I listened quietly as he went on.
“After you were with the asshole I kind of blamed myself.”
“Why? It wasn’t your fault?”
“It was. If I had told you before you met him, you wouldn’t have had to go through that.”
“Brian, it wasn’t your fault. No one could have known that things were going to turn out the way they did. Sometimes it just isn’t the right time.”
“I know, I just wish I had told you sooner.” He smiled.
“Well thanks for telling me now.” I smiled back.
We ordered our food and the rest of the time we were there we chatted about random things but I’m sure there was a big talk coming soon about if anything would come what we had discussed.
I really hoped something would.

Notes

Thank you all for reading!! i hope that you have enjoyed this so far! I know that it's started a little slow, well i feel like it has anyway. lol, but it will get better i promise!!!

And huge shout out to my girl Erin! aka elovebakervengeance!!
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